Searchable Digest of articles about Charlton County from the Savannah Morning News
June, 1895
From Savannah Morning News
June 13 1895
CHARLTON COUNTY GLEANINGS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FROM AROUND FOLKSTON
Folkston, Ga.,
June 12
Quantities of fine peaches are grown in the vicinity of Folkston, particularly this season.
The corn crop all over the county is reported very fine.
The farmers are paying more attention to raising hogs than ever before.
The large cypress mill now being operated by the Suwanee Canal Company, ten miles south of Folkston, on the B. and P. railroad, at the head of the Okefinokee swamp, has done much for the development of that section of the county. Since the canal was opened into the swamp for several miles, there is very little need to drain the swamp, as first intended, to get the timber out, and no further work seems to be doing toward finishing the canal into the St. Mary's river.
The Brooks Bros. and the Chattahoochee Brick Company have completed their railroad, running southwest from Camp Perry, Fla. crossing the St. Mary's river at Traders' Hill, continuing some 20 miles in the direction of Lake City, and are doing a very large and extensive business in this county on the south side of the swamp, working timber for turpentine purposes, cutting crossties for northern markets and working a large saw-mill plant. They have some 350 state convict hands, besides all the free labor they can employ.
The people are boasting about their having one of the best schools in the state at Folkston.
One of the Rev. Mr. Sikes' 2-year-old children swallowed a small oval-shaped tin whistle Sunday morning and through the efforts of Dr. J.C. Wright it was forced from the neck of the stomach to the lower stomach with instruments. At this time the child has shown no serious symptoms. No food could be retained until this was done.
The Rev. M.C. Austin is doing a great deal of good in this section in building up his congregations in this and the surrounding counties.
Quarterly meeting for Bethel church vicinity starts up this week.
A trip to Traders' Hill, the present county seat, would convince any stranger that the court house and jail should be moved to Folkstone.
Sheep shearing still continues throughout the county.
Fishermen and fish are plentiful in the St. Mary's river, Spanish creek and quite a number of other small streams near Folkstone. Bill Bryant reports plenty of bear and tiger in the Okefinokee swamp.
There are more Primitive Baptists in Charlton county than any other county in Georgia.
There is less fire insurance carried in this county, less paint used on buildings, and fewer houses destroyed, than any other county in the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben McDonald will commence keeping house in a few days in their new home.
Miss Nellie Lang of Race Pond is visiting her sister, Mrs. McDonald, on McDonald Avenue.
Miss Rosa Jones of Jacksonville, Fla. is on a visit to see her grandmother, Mrs. Sheffield on Bachlott Avenue.
Miss Emma Burney of Waycross is visiting friends in the city.
Miss Lizzie Mizell of Folkston is visiting Miss Annie Register, at her country home at Shirley, on the Satilla river.
The Messrs. Brooks Bros. received another large engine for their new railroad last week.
Messrs. Cole & Covington's turpentine plant, including their mules and teams and lease of turpentine timber, were sold at public outcry at Traders Hill Tuesday, and bought by Messrs. Peacock, Hunt & Co. for $5,000.00 Several prominent attorneys were present looking after other claims of C.C. Grace and Mr. McNeil on the property that was sold.
Compiled by Lois Barefoot Mays
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